Bevy (bevy.com)

Enterprise Community events and user group software to build and scale. Customers include: Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, Adobe, Snowflake, Slack, Figma, and Snap. Heading up product, marketing and sales, customer success, HR, and finance teams. Contribution includes: first product manager, designed V1, AE for first $1M in ARR, first customer success person, acquisition of CMX, $60M funding raised from +50 investors.

Co-Founder/CEO

Startup Grind

600-city community in 120-countries educating and connecting startup people. +20,000 events hosted, +1,000 volunteers, 250,000 minutes of video content, for 1M people attendees. Created in Silicon Valley, Startup Grind brings the world's best founders, investors, and thought leaders to the stage. Est 2010

Little League International

Favorite teams:
Bevy PCL 2019, https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx1Xdo8BA8Q/?hl=en
Bevy PCL 2020, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd2Hf37LIIz/?hl=en
Fall Ball Cardinals 2021, https://www.instagram.com/p/CVrbbyol8tm/?hl=en
Fall Ball Cardinals 2022, https://www.instagram.com/p/CkUkvVIr5lk/?hl=en

Head Coach

Vaporware Labs

Product incubator of mostly failed products. Startup Grind (2010-present), Trending.it, OutGawk Media, Steve Young Football iOS, MEETorDIE, and Commonred (Acq by Income.com). Contribution includes: Product managed engineering teams to 15 shipped products for Netgear, Palm, Ubisoft, and ourselves.

Co-Founder / Head of Product

Electronic Arts

Company wide management of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook communities. Supported products like Sims 3, Need For Speed, Madden, and Battlefield.

Entertainment Development

Product marketing on The Godfather, Criterion (Burnout) and DICE (Mirror's Edge). Recipient of company wide Rookie of the Year award (2006). Also two internships in digital and product marketing.

Product Manager

uSight

Customer success and marketing for INC #2 fastest growing company in 2004. Infected by startup bug.

Customer Success/Marketing/Sales

For the past 15 years Derek has been building communities. He is the co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, Snowflake, and Adobe build virtual and in-person communities. Bevy has raised $60M from Accel, Upfront Ventures, and others. He co-founded Startup Grind, a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries educating, inspiring, and connecting startup people. Since 2012 Startup Grind has hosted 20,000 events. In 2010 he co-founded Commonred which was acquired by Income.com. Derek also previously worked as a product manager at Electronic Arts. He currently lives in Palo Alto CA with his wife and four children.

This week on Divot I am thankful (see what I did there?) to chat with Christine Tsai, CEO and Founding Partner of 500 Global. Christine is one of Silicon Valley's most resilient leaders. We talked about about 500 Global backing 3,000+ companies, why innovation comes from everywhere, and leading through volatility. We did it in 500's downtown Palo Alto office. Links to watch/listen in the comments. Thanks Christine!

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Derek Andersen

How do you deliver feedback in a way for it to be thoughtfully received and implemented? Kim Scott is the world's expert on this and I left our Divot chat with tangible things to do to become a better manager, leader, and friend. 

Radical Candor® might still be the most quoted management framework in Silicon Valley. Her newer work Radical Respect is equally impactful. 

In our conversation we talk about feedback, speaking truth and showing love. The clip below shares what's wrong with the feedback sandwich. Links to full video/audio in comments.

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